Sunday, June 15, 2025

6/15/25

Rick arrived Friday morning with the trailer and the remaining upper and lower cabinets, and I arrived Friday afternoon. He unloaded the cabinets and had the upper ones installed when I got there. The lower ones were a little more complicated to get leveled up (nothing in the house is square), and Rick ended up having to make a trip under the house in some mud to repair a pipe that broke off while attempting to get the kitchen sink cabinet in place. 

It was a hot and humid weekend, so Saturday morning before 8am we decided to carry the tree branches to the city brush dumping area near the lake while we had the trailer available. It ended up taking two trips. We also made a trip to the city hall dumpster to take a lot of stuff that's been collecting under the car port for a while (an old furnace, the old windows, old pipes, paneling, some old furniture from the storage shed, etc.). We worked more on the kitchen and bathroom cabinets, installed the window seats, installed the 2 remaining floor cabinets (somehow I didn't get a picture of the kitchen with these in place!). I also hoed weeds and sanded previously filled nail holes in the doorways, windows, and baseboards.

Sunday, we installed the baseboards in the living room, 3rd bedroom, and some in the kitchen (we'll have to get the utility room flooring and kitchen window bench in place and the kitchen cabinet bases finalized in order to finish), caulked baseboards/windows/door frames, and filled nail holes in the newly installed areas. I also removed all interior door hinges to make caulking easier and to prepare for painting the trim soon and vacuumed the walls and floor in the master bedroom. We also loaded up the old tower and cables onto the trailer and brought it back to Lubbock. Sunday morning was quite stormy, and we lost some branches in a backyard tree. 

Cabinets loaded in van and on trailer
Upper cabinets in place

Main bathroom cabinet in progress
Over toilet cabinet in main bathroom
After the trip under the house to repair pipe
East wall cabinets in progress
1st load Saturday morning
A cranky neighborhood duck
Face off between van and duck
Junk headed to the city rolloff dumpster
Cleaned carport
Boone visiting Becky while his parents are in Italy (and, yes, those are stickers in his beard)
Rita
Broken tree branches and lots of wind

Living room baseboards
Living room baseboards
Another view
3rd bedroom final baseboard in place
Getting closer on main bathroom cabinet
The tower (7 pieces + cables)
Baseboard progress in kitchen

Sunday, June 8, 2025

6/8/25

Unfortunately, we weren't able to go work on the house this weekend. We had to attend a family funeral here on Saturday afternoon. Rick did make a quick trip down on Wednesday to meet with the insurance adjuster related to the hail and wind storm in April. He also took several of the upper cabinets, as well as the main bathroom cabinet. 

He's been putting on primer and painting the kitchen cabinets and building drawers this week and weekend. Hopefully we'll have lots of cabinets ready to take back with us and install next weekend!



Sunday, June 1, 2025

6/1/25

We both arrived Friday afternoon and installed baseboards through most of the house and focused on completing the difficult areas in corners and closets. We brought the new baseboards that Rick purchased Friday morning but forgot to bring the other baseboards we had already purchased, so we weren't able to finish but it should be quick to finish up next time. We also finished the door trim on the 3rd bedroom door inside the laundry room, created window seats and bottom trim for all of the windows, filled nail holes, sanded baseboards and door frames, and caulked the baseboards and doors (until we ran out of caulk). The window seats returned to Lubbock with us for sanding, routing, and painting. 

We also spent a few hours trimming trees in the backyard area this morning while it was still relatively cool. It was badly needed and looks much better! We have a very friendly roadrunner who visits regularly and even got into Rick's van last week. I think he'd go in the house if the door was open. 

Next time we'll finish the baseboards, finish caulking and sanding, place and caulk the window seats, and maybe paint baseboards/door frames or work on the bathroom floors.